GENEVA: The catastrophic scale of the Covid-19 pandemic could have been prevented, an independent global panel concluded on Wednesday, but a “toxic cocktail” of dithering and poor coordination meant the warning signs went unheeded.
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response said a series of bad decisions meant Covid-19 went on to kill more than 3.3 million people so far and devastate the global economy.
Institutions “failed to protect people” and science-denying leaders eroded public trust in health interventions, the IPPPR said in its long-awaited final report.
Early responses to the outbreak detected in Wuhan, China in December 2019 “lacked urgency”, with February 2020 a costly “lost month” as countries failed to heed the alarm, said the panel.
World ignored warnings, Covid-19 pandemic could have been prevented: Report ANI | Updated: May 13, 2021 07:58 IST
Geneva [Switzerland], May 13 (ANI): The world had ignored warnings which resulted in the outbreak of COVID-19, and the international system could have prevented it from escalating into the devastating pandemic, an independent global panel concluded on Wednesday.
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR) in its report said, It is clear to the Panel that the world was not prepared and had ignored warnings which resulted in a massive failure: an outbreak of SARS-COV-2 became a devastating pandemic.
After analyzing the early response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the probe panel concluded that the international system could have been different, and prevented it from escalating into the devastating pandemic it became.
Aditi TandonTribune News ServiceNew Delhi, May 12
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR), which spent the last eight months reviewing evidence of the spread of Covid-19,
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First Quarter 2021 Highlights
Comparable EBITDA
(1) of $310 million, an increase of $90 million or 41 per cent compared to the same period in 2020
Free cash flow ( FCF )
(1) of $129 million or $0.48 per share compared to $109 million or $0.39 per share, a 23 per cent increase on a per share basis, for the same period in 2020
Hydro segment delivered $77 million of comparable EBITDA, an increase of $51 million or 96 per cent compared to the same period in 2020
Adjusted availability was 88.6 per cent compared to 92.8 per cent for the same period in 2020